Original art created and donated by Cornell students and faculty are on sale this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Dec. 5 through 7 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Tjaden Gallery in Olive Tjaden Hall on Cornell University's campus.

The fifth annual Holiday Art Show and Sale offers a selection of prints by fine arts faculty, undergraduates and graduate students. On sale this year will be about 90 prints -- etchings, monoprints, silk screens and lithographs -- from more than 60 exhibitors. The prints will be priced from about $10 to about $100. Profits will go to Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance.

Visiting assistant professor Joel Peck, the exhibition's chief organizer, said, "The show and sale offer holiday shoppers a wonderful opportunity to purchase original art for less than the cost of mass produced posters, while benefiting an important cause."

The annual sale was launched by Associate Professor Elisabeth Haly Meyer five years ago as a way to involve young student artists in helping society and giving back to the community. "I wanted it to be a model for teaching students about social responsibility," she said.

Last year, the sale raised more than $2,000 for primatologist and A.D. White Professor Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program. Other past recipients have been the Children's Defense Fund, Doctors Without Borders and Hospicare of Tompkins County.

For more information, contact Joel Peck at 255-6721 or jp294@cornell.edu.